The Supreme Court ruled Biden’s student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Eh, this was always on shaky legal grounds. Even Pelosi herself said last year that she didn’t think the Executive had the authority to unilaterally do this, and as I understand, Biden was skeptical as well. It’s a bit of a stretch to say that Congress intended to allow the President to unilaterally void student debt when they passed a measure to allow for adjustments during emergencies.

    The ostensible textualists on the Court are certainly being a little hypocritical, but it’s not an absurd ruling.

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      1 year ago

      It’s at least got to completely parallel the executive branch’s discretion with federal drug laws, that they’ve exercised in not prosecuting for federal marijuana violations. I feel like that’s something to watch out for now.